More than fifty congressmen of the Republic have renounced their banks of origin since they entered into functions in July 2021. The vast majority of them, not to say almost all, joined other political blocks or, failing that, constituted new groups distorting the representativeness given by the electorate to the political parties for which they applied.
This situation, however, could be avoided in the next Congress Bicameral If approved, in the Constitution Commission, the predicters of the regulations of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, which establish that in case of renouncing their parliamentary group, the congressmen will not be able to constitute a new bench but will become integrated by the so -called Mixed Parliamentary Group for the purpose of presenting legislative propositions or integrating commissions. They may not, however, integrate the Board of Directors or the Board of Spokespersons; The mixed group, meanwhile, will not have staff or office.
The proposal was observed by legislators such as Alejandro Cavero (Avanza País), who said that “although new groups should not be formed, a parliamentarian should be allowed to join another block if his resignation responded to reasons of consciousness” his position, however, he was refuted from Fuerza Popular.
Patricia Juárez warned that in what is going on the legislative five -year period, many legislators withdrew from their benches “because they did not give them something or simply to aspire to the presidency of a commission” representing another group. “There has not been a matter of consciousness but where I accommodate better or because another bench does give me a commission presidency in the next legislature,” he said, adding that such practices are those that have to discourage themselves in a next congress.
On the point Adriana Tudela also pronounced, who insisted that it is necessary to “allow the reconfiguration of political forces” in Parliament, and in that line, leave open the possibility of being in accordance, for example, alliances between two or more benches “as a way to combat political fragmentation recorded in recent years.”
“The same operates when there is a congressman who passes to another bench, but not forming a new group because allowing that makes parliamentary management absolutely impossible and dysfunctional,” he said.
In that context, he considered valid for a congressman to give up a bench if, for example the party he represents betrayed his primal postulates. “We have a system (of choice) with preferential vote, it was finally voted by the name and surname; the representatives are people, individuals, we must be careful to give excessive power to the party domes,” he said.
His position, however, was rejected by Martha Moyano, who refuted that although there is a preferential vote, the voter votes for a group. “We cannot mention that as we are chosen by the preferential vote I have more right than the party; we all represent the bench thus we have been chosen by the preferential vote,” he said.
Loss of seat
The predicters under discussion, also, establish that in the event that a senator or deputy “is convicted by means of a firm judicial judgment for the commission of a crime against public health in the modality of illicit drug trafficking, terrorism, human trafficking or money laundering from these illicit, it will not be replaced by the accessory.”
Ruth Luque, of a popular democratic block, warned that the measure could have an impact on the representativeness of the political group.
Alejandro Muñante, of popular renewal, meanwhile, requested that the express prohibition be incorporated into the regulations of the constitutional breakdown as has happened in this five -year period. “Just as intervention in judicial processes is prohibited or having participation in companies that hire with the State there must be an express prohibition of encouraging the breakdown of the constitutional order,” he said.
Surveys
At another time in the session, Congressman Edward Málaga supported his project to modify the Organic Law of Elections so that the publication of surveys on electoral results is carried out up to 24 hours before the start of the electoral day. He also stated that the restriction in the expenditure of alcoholic beverages is carried out “exceptionally” and in order to guarantee public order only in “certain constituencies” from 8:00 a.m. the day before the day of the vote and until the closing of the village premises.
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